Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance

Tickets Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance Curated by Pedro Alejandro Verdin Bay Area Video: Artists, Tapes, Performance brings together video works spanning several generations of artists connected to San Francisco and the greater Bay Area, with the San Francisco Art Institute serving as a loose point of departure. Moving from early experiments in video and performance through the artist-run, punk, and alternative cultures of the 1980s and ’90s and into more recent work, the program traces the ways video circulated between artists, musicians, performers, teachers, students, and friends. Rather than attempting a definitive history of Bay Area video, the screening follows a more informal lineage—one shaped by art schools, artist-run spaces, clubs, libraries, archives, and the communities that formed around them. Bringing together different generations and approaches, the program looks at video as a medium for performance, experimentation, documentation, humor, music, identity, and everyday life, and at the ways these ideas have been passed between artists over time. Pedro Alejandro Verdin Pedro Alejandro Verdin is a Los Angeles–based artist whose work moves between image, sound, and performance, weaving together tenderness, playfulness, and personal and collective histories. Verdin’s work has been exhibited at Shoot the Lobster, Gene’s Dispensary, JOAN, and Gordon Robichaux in New York, and he has performed at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles. Verdin is a member of the artist collective Grupo Ñ and co-runs the collaborative poster project Kol-Bee. He received his BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute and his MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Featuring works by: Paul Kos Trevor Shimizu Will Rogan Marlon Riggs George Kuchar Bruce Nauman ORFN Kevin Killian Keke Hunt Anne McGuire Kathy Acker Nao Bustamante Karen Finley Cecilia Dougherty Chris Lux Kota Ezawa Add to calendar Google Calendar iCalendar Outlook 365 Outlook Live